Just... you guys.

Put your heads down.

It's going to get really really real.

But also: love people. Don't forget.

There is nothing more important than each other and this great green earth.

This is the real-time.

None of us wanted it.

It feels like a fever that doesn't break.

But this is real, and happening.

And you need to be brave.

Bravery takes many forms.

Not all of them are machismo--most of them are not.

Mostly, it's a Black man getting pulled over yet again and facing a hostile officer of the law telling him to get out of the car with his hands up.

That is bravery--unasked for.

Unwanted.

Bravery is women escaping their abusers.

Bravery is immigrants sitting on the border in camps--either on our side or on Mexico's side--demanding a better life.

Bravery is being the men and women rousted off of planes in the first two weeks of the Trump Admin because they were flying from Muslim majority countries.

Bravery is the lawyers who KNEW that we were facing the dark, and did it anyway.

Bravery is the journalists who went to the border and covered child concentration camps when no one wanted to touch it.

Bravery is the dozens of women who--despite the legal system failing them time and again--calling out Weinstein. Calling out Epstein. Calling out Trump.

Bravery is rarely in wartime.

Bravery is almost always in "peacetime."

Because the systems are only peaceful for a few.

Now we make our stand for all.

Bravery is not Miles Whateverhisname is, who revealed himself as an anonymous voice behind enemy lines.

That is cowardice.

Bravery is Marie Yovanovich, who was literally targeted by Trump and fled the Ukraine because she was marked.

And then she testified.

Bravery is the whistleblowers.

Bravery is the career civil servants who saved science data as it was being destroyed by the Trump admin.

Bravery is quiet.

None of us will get medals after this disaster, but we are BRAVE.

We are BRAVE.

You are brave.

You are telling your family to vote. Sometimes that is an EXTREME position, and we thank you for doing it.

Bravery is --despite all the doom-scrolling, despite the really intense situation--you're still here.

Most of us will NOT face the full wrath of a dying political schema.

But the people who will: they are vulnerable and your duty as someone who is BRAVE is to speak out against tyranny.

So get your gas masks. Get your game face on. Get your posse.

It's going to be intense.

But love your country.

Love America, despite its innumerable flaws.

Love each other.

But most importantly:

LOVE PEOPLE YOU MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND.

Because they are America too.

And you are fighting with them.

And they are fighting for you.

And we are a bloc right now.

Viva.